In a brief piece titled “Who’s afraid of Charlie Kirk?” National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty frets that, because Democrats don’t see the corrupt small-faced propagandist/”youth” activist’s get-out-the-vote operations for convicted felon former President Trump as a formidable, existential threat, like Leonard Leo or Mitch McConnell then conservatives should be worried that the Orange Warlord made a fatal mistake by outsourcing the canvassing to Kirk. From Dougherty:
If there were a really effective GOP get-out-the-vote operation, I feel like we’d be getting all these dark profiles of Kirk, and stories implying that Turning Point USA is using questionable legal methods to steal the election. Nobody was embarrassed four years ago about spreading the theory that Trump was going to steal the election by using post offices.
We got those profiles of Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for its small part in helping Brexit and Donald Trump – even though, by the standards set by the Obama campaign in 2012, these were minuscule digital campaigns. If they’re not accusing you of having dark, mysterious powers of influence, you probably aren’t having any impact at all and don’t belong in Republican politics.
Lol. The actual truth is a lot of the situation’s simply a black box. There are not, as far as we know, any real insider-y pieces about the day-to-day of the canvassing ops led by Kirk – or the other ones by Elon Musk and whoever else Team Trump handed it off to. All we have to work with is the recent spate of reporting quoting actual Republicans… and most of them are pissing their pants about it.